This year the German company Hägele GmbH entered the Ukrainian market with an innovative product – the Cleanfix reversible fan for a wide range of specialized machinery.
Engines in modern high-power machinery need increasingly larger radiators. And this creates a problem: cooling fans quickly turn the whole system into a vacuum cleaner, clogging radiators and air filters. In dusty work, the engine overheats, needs more fuel, and has to stop fairly often – to clean the radiator with a compressor. Overall, this can lead to losses of several thousand euros a year.
Cleanfix technology from Hägele GmbH, represented in our country by official agricultural machinery and parts dealer ABA “Astra”, offers a solution. Cleanfix fans don’t just draw in air – they also provide effective radiator cleaning through a powerful reverse airflow in a matter of seconds.
Unlike standard reversible fans with rigid blades, which change rotation direction to clean the radiator, Cleanfix fan blades rotate around their own axis through a transverse position. Thanks to precise aerodynamic profile alignment, this ensures increased airflow during cleaning.
What’s more – Cleanfix reversible fan blades can automatically adapt to the machine’s immediate cooling needs. This reduces the fan’s energy consumption and allows even greater fuel savings.
Overall, this concept allows the blade profiles to always stay in the optimal position – both for generating maximum airflow and pressure for efficient cooling, and for thorough radiator cleaning.
Cleanfix reversible fans are currently used worldwide at many well-known brands’ plants. But there are also (and now available in Ukraine) Cleanfix installation kits, which can be used to upgrade existing machinery across a wide range of models.
With the help of special Cleanfix kits, you can upgrade tractors, combine harvesters, sprayers, excavators, front loaders, bulldozers, mini-loaders, and many other machines.
For example, there are pneumatic and hydraulic versions. That is, in this fan the blades are rotated either by compressed air or by hydraulic oil. What’s more, the hydraulic version has improved operational reliability thanks to the innovative patented Smart-Seal-System.
So, in general terms, a Cleanfix kit consists of a fan and valves that connect to the vehicle’s pneumatic or hydraulic system. But if the hydraulic or pneumatic system isn’t accessible – Cleanfix can include its own compressor, connected only to power. As well as a reliable housing and a range of other equipment options.
The cleaning process can be triggered by a button located in the cab. If needed, the cleaning process can be automated with a timer. And with the Cleanfix control app from Hägele GmbH – this can also be done by connecting via Bluetooth.
The app makes it possible to quickly switch between manual and automatic modes, adjust cleaning cycles, and pause or start them at any time, among other things.
The app also lets you receive automatic alerts about the need for maintenance, elevated temperature, and malfunctions, and to check the whole system in general.
In addition, as extra options there are Flex elastic tips, which improve air intake by 8-15% and let you reduce the fan’s rotation speed, saving even more fuel.
Overall, Cleanfix offers many individual solutions, options, and applications. So a matching kit can be found for almost any machine.
What’s more – if a farm has qualified service staff, such a kit can even be installed on your own. But self-installation isn’t covered by warranty, just like with any other spare parts, and it can even void the warranty on the machinery itself.
Even though the Cleanfix fan is installed in place of the standard one, its design and operating principle differ from the standard fan. There are also specifics to both installation and use, so it’s very advisable to have experience to work correctly with the system.
So the optimal option is to turn to ABA “Astra” specialists, who can carry out the work either at their own service center or even on the farm itself. Installation takes about 1 working day. If the machinery is under warranty – the warranty is preserved (if that option is provided by the machinery manufacturer).
Let’s sum up.
The Cleanfix fan provides effective cooling and a clean radiator, which means more engine power, less noise, lower fuel costs, and less downtime. And, as a result – a fast payback and further substantial savings on machinery operation over its working life.
By the way, the quality of this development is confirmed by two Agritechnica innovation medals.
For more detailed information on the operation, purchase, and installation of Cleanfix reversible fans – contact ABA “Astra” specialists.
